It’s Friday and Memorial Day Weekend is kicking off! Despite what the calendar says, around here Memorial Day Weekend means summer is beginning! It is such a fun & exciting time of the year for us. With summer on the horizon, the magic of warm…
motherhood
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
Read more“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” –Rumi I wake up to the sound of my bedroom door opening and then the patter of little feet entering the room. “Mama…” Each morning it’s the same. One of them wakes the other. Roman…
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Target Dates & Kitty Litter
Read moreThis shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #FreeandCleanLiving #CollectiveBias When you have a second child, there is a natural disparity in the amount of alone time that you are able to spend with each of…
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☼ HE IS RISEN! ☼ // Easter 2018
Read more“I want to be part of the fellowship of the broken. The fellowship of the broken believe that suffering is a gift He entrusted to us and He can be trusted to make the suffering into a gift. The fellowship of the broken take up…
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Home is wherever I’m with you (both).
Read moreThank you GEICO for sponsoring this post. This afternoon my dad came over to install new blinds in my bedroom. Bit by bit, project by project, our beautiful house is turning into a home. I’ve written a little bit about the bouncing around that the…
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Little Victories: A Bedtime Routine
Read more“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” –John Steinbeck Well, it’s only taken me four years, but I’ve finally established a bedtime routine for my children. If you’ve read any of the “baby sleep training books” then you know…
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Upgrade Your Favorite Breakfast Smoothie
Read moreThank you McCormick for sponsoring this post. Visit your local Wal-Mart to pick up McCormick Good Morning Breakfast for your family! If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, then you know that I am a smoothie person. I’ve been drinking smoothies for years. They…
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january 2018: heart spill
Read moreIt’s been a long-time coming, but a lot of the things that I have been praying for, for so long, have finally come to pass. I am grateful and humble. Soon my life will be marked with sweeping changes and before all of that happens,…
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The Christmas Card That Never Was
Read moreHow are you, friends? Have you all survived the post-holiday blues? January has been a little rough over here. We had a cold snap that lasted for two weeks straight where the temperatures didn’t rise above freezing at all. It was painful to be outside…